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To: WASH

No, I'm not. Scientists used to care about the "how" question. But around the 50's and 60's, when new theories were starting to be developed around quantum hypotheses, scientists started banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out "how" these things could possibly happen. The theories continued to be developed and successfully tested, and the "how" question was never answered. Eventually came the realization, how didn't matter. The science was just as valid without the "how", and I think now that most serious-minded scientists have accepted that while "how" is comforting, it is not a part of science.


188 posted on 01/18/2005 12:49:01 PM PST by munchtipq
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To: munchtipq
I think now that most serious-minded scientists have accepted that while "how" is comforting, it is not a part of science.

Then, IMO, they have become Mathematicians and Engineers

193 posted on 01/18/2005 1:18:47 PM PST by WASH
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